Woman found hanging by seatbelt after driving off Mulholland cliff in the rain

After freeing a young woman from her car, Los Angeles firefighters start the long trek close to 300 feet up a hilside after her car plummeted down the wet, muddy hillside on Jan. 24, 2013, near Mulholland and Skyline drives Sherman Oaks. (Mike Meadows/Special to the Daily News)

This woman was found by firefighters hanging from her seatbelt after her car plummeted off the road and 300 feet down near Mulholland and Skyline drives in Sherman Oaks on Jan. 24, 2013. (Mike Meadows/Special to the Daily News)

A young woman was hoisted to safety after her car drove off a cliff on Mulholland Drive during a rainy Thursday morning.

The incident happened at 9:40 a.m. in the 12000 block of Mulholland Drive just west of Skyline Drive, leaving the woman trapped in her vehicle against a tree for nearly an hour, said LAFD spokesman Erik Scott.